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The Yenisei River basin in Siberia. As the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan cemented their military alliance by mutually declaring war against the United States on December 11, 1941, the Japanese proposed a clear territorial arrangement with the two main European Axis powers concerning the Asian continent. [1]
During 1945, the United States added the United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, commanded by General Carl A. Spaatz. Because of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the United States Navy in conducting war, the Pacific Theater had no single Allied or U.S. commander (comparable to General of the Army Dwight D ...
This claim is based on ambiguities in several documents and declarations made during and in the aftermath of World War II. The Yalta Agreement , signed by the United States , United Kingdom , and Soviet Union in February 1945, stated that in return for declaring war on Japan, the Soviet Union would receive several territories, including the ...
In Allied countries during the war, the "Pacific War" was not usually distinguished from World War II, or was known simply as the War against Japan. In the United States, the term Pacific theater was widely used. The US Armed Forces considered the China Burma India theater to be distinct from the Asiatic-Pacific theater during the conflict.
After World War I the League of Nations was formed in the hope that diplomacy and a united international community of nations could prevent another global war. [2] [3] However, the League and the appeasement of aggressive nations during the invasions of Manchuria, Ethiopia and the annexation of Czechoslovakia was largely considered ineffective.
1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II. 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. 10 June 1940 – 13 May 1943 North African Campaign. 11 June 1940 – 4 February 1943 Western Desert Campaign. 9–16 September 1940 Italian invasion of Egypt; 9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941 Operation Compass
Series of maps showing the progress of the battles and their relation to the South East Asian theatre of war. The Allied South East Asia Command had begun making plans to reconquer Burma as early as June 1944 (while the Battle of Imphal was still being fought, although its outcome was clear). Three main options were proposed.